U.S. won't join CPTPP but will seek new framework: Raimondo

TOKYO -- U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Monday that her country looks to form an economic framework that goes beyond the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.

America envisions an economic framework that "could be even more robust in some ways than the traditional free trade agreement," Raimondo said in a television interview during her trip to Tokyo.